Watering device for cattle.



H. C. RASSMANN. WATERING DEVICE FOR CATTLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 12. 1917- 1,260,804. Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

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Specificationof Letters I'atent.

, Patented Mar. 26,1918.

Application filed February 12, 1917. Serial No. 148,138.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, Huco C. RAssMANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge and Stateof Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watering Devices for Cattle; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the. art tovwhichit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in watering devices for cattle,and particularly to such as embody means operable by the cattle to control the flow of water into the bowl,-one object of my present invention being to provide a structure in which the bow] shall be supported independently of the fount or Water supply means, whereby the liability of breakage shall be reduced to aminimum, and whereby shipment of the structure shall be facilitated.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of watering device structure embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View, partly in section.

1 represents a vertical water pipe with which suitable means may be connected, at either of its ends, for conveying water thereto. A valve casing 2 is provided on the pipe 1 and may be made integral therewith,said valve casing being adapted to communicate with the water pipe and being made with a discharge outlet at 3, to deliver water into a bowl 4 located under the same. The pipe 1 and casing 2 thus constitute a fount for supplying water to the bowl. A valve (not shown) is located within the casing 2 for controlling the passage of water therethrough, and this valve may be constructed as illustrated in my previous Patent No. 1,210,693, issued January 2nd, 1917, with its stem 5 projecting above the casing.

The bowl 4 is pivotally connected near its bottom with one end of a bracket 6 and is maintained in its normal horizontal position by means of a pivoted latch 7 disposed between the upper edge of the bowl and the bottom of the casing 2. In the present instance, I have shown this latch pivoted to engage the bowl.

)The bracket 6 may comprise two. arms 8 having alining perforated bosses 9 at one end to receive a pivot pin 10, the latter also passing through spaced lugs 11 projecting from the bottom portion of the bowl. At their other ends, the arms forming the bracket 6 are adapted to connect with a support which is independent of the fount. In the present instance, I have shown the arms of the bracket so formed as to provide a clamp 11 to engage a stall post 12 and secured in place thereon by means of bolts 13, '14. In the drawings I have shown a metal stall post to which the bowl-supportingbracket is damped, but it will be understood that the bracket 6 may be so formed as to adapt it for attachment to a wooden or even concrete portion of the stall structure.

In the present instance, the arms 8 forming the bracket 6 are formed between their ends with semi-circular enlargements or bowed portions 15 which embrace the vertical pipe 1 of the fount and to prevent these portions of the bracket from clamping said pipe, the bracket arms may be formed with abutting shoulders 16, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The pipe 1 may be provided near its lower end and at diametrically opposite sides with pairs of spaced lugs 17 between which the bowed portions 15 of the bracket arms will pass, so that the bracket may be accurately located to cause the bowl to be properly positioned to be engaged by the latch 7.

The valve within the casing will be controlled by the action of the animal, and the means for this purpose may comprise a lever 18 provided with a platform 19 located within the bowl, said lever being pivoted to the water pipe above the casing 2 and provided with a part 20 to engage the valve stem, all as fully shown and described in patent granted to me on the 7th day of November, 1916, and designated by No. 1,204,066.

With the construction and arrangement herein shown and described, the bowl will be pivotally mounted independently of the fo-unt, and thus liability of breakage of the latter and the consequence of such breakage, will be reduced to a minimum.

Various changes might be made in the dethe casing 1 and adapted at its free end to combination with a fount and a bowl to receive water therefrom, of a bracket constructed at one end for attachment to a sup port independent of the fount, and pivotally connected at its other end. with the bowl, and a latch engaging the upper portion of the bowl and the fount.

2. In watering means for cattle, the combination with a fount, and a bowl to receive water therefrom, of a bracket comprising two arms cooperatmg at one end to provlde attaching means to a support independent of the fount and pivotally attached at their other ends to the bowl, said arms having intermediate bowed portions to accommodate a portion of the fonnt, guide lugs on the fonnt between which said bowed portions of the bracket arms pass, and means for retainmg the bowl in a normal horizontal p0s1- tion..

specification in the presence of two subscrib- .ing witnesses.

HUGO O. RASSMANN. Witnesses H. R. Vn'r'rnR, E. J LAWRENCE.

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In testimony whereof, I have signed this 

